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Texas can improve care and cut costs with medical home, shared savings initiatives
By Greg Sheff, M.D.
I am fortunate to be a part of a multi-year patient-centered medical home and shared savings pilot at Austin Regional Clinic. ARC is an approximately 300 physician multi-specialty group delivering care at 18 clinics and seven hospitals throughout the Austin area. Earlier this year, ARC joined a multi-year medical home pilot administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. The pilot was initiated in large part in response to Texas legislation requiring the Employees Retirement System, the self-funded insurer for state employees, to experiment with alternate payment and delivery models in an attempt to reduce the state’s ever-increasing health care costs. We are one of five physician groups in the state participating. Our program serves roughly 45,000 patients, including both the ERS (whose health care benefits are administered by BCBSTX) and BCBSTX fully-insured populations.
In addition to the traditional PCMH goal of comprehensive, coordinated, accessible, patient-centered care for all, ARC is also implementing processes to proactively identify high-risk patients and then deploy intensive, focused, physician-led care management interventions to these high-risk patients.
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Meet Linda Siy, MD, the 2022-2023 Texas Family Physician of the Year.
Texas Family Doc Talk
A podcast about practicing family medicine in a time of mergers and acquisitions, telemedicine … more
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Physicians generate trillions in economic activity
Physicians generate trillions in economic activity
By Erin Redwine
A study released in February shows the important contributions physicians make to the local, state, and national economies. “The … more
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Member of the Month: Christine Criscuolo Higgins, M.D.
Academic physician’s love of fitness inspires community involvement
June’s Member of the Month: Christine Criscuolo Higgins, M.D.
Christine Criscuolo Higgins, M.D., is a clinical faculty member … more
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Payment reform is coming
Payment reform is coming
TAFP summit will help you prepare
By Kate Alfano
WHAT: Payment Reform SummitWHEN: Oct. 1, 2011, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.WHERE: Austin, at the Omni Austin Hotel at Southpark
As … more
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Family physician elected TMA Foundation Board secretary
Family physician elected TMA Foundation Board secretary
T. David Greer, M.D., a family physician in private practice in Henrietta, Texas, has been elected to serve a two-year term as secretary of … more
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Prepare now for HIPAA transaction standards change
Prepare now for HIPAA transaction standards change
Physicians need to begin preparing for the next step in the evolution of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transaction … more
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Characteristics of patients using extreme opioid dosages in the treatment of chronic low back pain
Characteristics of patients using extreme opioid dosages in the treatment of chronic low back pain
Shannon Essler, Southwestern University, GeorgetownTerrell Benold, M.D., UT Southwestern – Austin … more
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Finding a home: Blue Cross medical home pilot targets quality, costs
Finding a home: Blue Cross medical home pilot targets quality, costs
By Ken OrtolonSenior Editor, Texas Medicine
Plano family physician Christopher Crow, M.D., M.B.A., says Village Health … more
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 62 No. 3, Summer 2011
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Cover: The session of what might have beenNow that the 82nd Legislature and the … more